The Curious Engineer

Simple Justice

2012–2013

1,352 posts

← 2011 2014 →

2013 746

December 2013

  1. How The NSA’s Sausage Got Made
  2. The Object of Writing
  3. A New Year And New Meaning Of Flashing Lights
  4. The Desirability of Saddling Them Upon Society
  5. Milwaukee P.O. Michael Vagnini: Short Time for a Long Finger
  6. Solutions in Search of Problems
  7. The Primacy of Bureaucracy
  8. 9/11, terrorists, motion to dismiss granted, terrorists, terrorists, 9/11 (Update)
  9. The Sacrifices We Make For Art
  10. Albany Faces The Second Battle of the Lies
  11. It Doesn’t Feel Like A Win
  12. Holiday Shopping For Lawyers
  13. Merry Christmas 2013 (Update)
  14. Letters To Santa: NSA Vetted, Just To Be Safe
  15. Meta: 6003
  16. Unpardonable Power
  17. The Future of Law: Now Even Sleazier!
  18. Playful and Safe, With Guns
  19. Kelly Clarkson: Satan or Merely His Spawn?*
  20. The Snowden Prize
  21. Crazy Joe Arpaio’s Antics Cost Maricopa $3.75 Million
  22. A New Low: Vaginal Probes At The Border (Update)
  23. Law Bio Puffery: It’s Not Just For Solos Anymore
  24. Nominations are Open for the 5th Annual Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post
  25. When Crime’s-a-Comin’
  26. Fashionable Excuses
  27. Pity the Poor Prosecutor
  28. Taser’s Secret Millions
  29. A Crack in the Third Party Doctrine
  30. Coming Clean
  31. Fixing Brady: A Judge’s Perspective
  32. Creating Law Talking Guys
  33. The View From Your Screen
  34. Northern Cool
  35. The Officer Was Not Seriously Hurt
  36. Fixing Maverick: An Appeal To Reason
  37. A Plurality Opinion: Sister Wives Wins
  38. The Tyranny of the Obvious
  39. Affluenza: If Only There Was An Epidemic
  40. When UGotPosted Got Busted
  41. Jana Winter: In The War of Rights, The Defendant Loses. Again.
  42. Not Very High On The Prosecutor’s List of Priorities
  43. Is Your Online Lawyer Maverick-y? (Special Butthurt Button Extra!!!)
  44. Bill Otis on Prison: Ain’t Nuthin’
  45. From The DOJ For The Children
  46. Any Moment Now, Judge Alsup
  47. Woe Is Them Too
  48. When Will Judges Learn About Cool Computer Tricks
  49. It Was A Snark And Smarmy Night
  50. Sentencing and the Cult of Personality (Update)
  51. When You’re 29 Forever
  52. Plea Bargaining, Ad Nauseum
  53. The Chaos Theory of Liability For Bad Aim
  54. We, The Jury, Are Confused
  55. The “Begrudging Submission” Rule and Street Reality
  56. Personal and Confidential to @CBSAndrew: Details Matter
  57. The Hit Dog Hollers
  58. A Courtrooom Too Stunning
  59. Too Polite For His Own Good (Update)
  60. Poor Litigants: Charity or Practice?
  61. There’s An App For That, Volume 32
  62. Carl David Ceder Learns The 12 Rules of The Blawgosphere
  63. Breaking Up Gay Is Hard To Do
  64. Believing Too Much

November 2013

  1. The ABA Blawg 100: Old and Ugly Wins It
  2. Who Doesn’t Love Rituatlistic Abuse?
  3. The Other Way To Conform Cops’ Stories
  4. The Parody of Taking Sides (Update)
  5. Thanksgiving 2013
  6. Responding To A Conservative and/or An Asshole
  7. United Breaks Guitars and Other Living Things (Apple Sauce Update)
  8. Let ’em Rust?
  9. Over 200,000 Innocent Defendants In Houston Prisons
  10. Managing Boomers’ Children At Work
  11. Revenge Porn and the Death of Section 230? The Answer is 42 (Update)
  12. OT: A Rude Awakening
  13. Dustin DeHaven’s Reputation for Truthiness
  14. Two Things Everyone Needs To Read (Update x2)
  15. Legal Advice Redux: Is It Good Enough?
  16. Reason 19 To Get Rid of the Third Year of Law School
  17. There Oughta Be A Law, Speed Edition
  18. Anatomy of a Guest Post
  19. Reviving Lavabit: Can The Issues Be Saved?
  20. A Thanksgiving Tale
  21. Disabled LIRR Retirees Get Asked The Hard Questions
  22. Beating Up On Drunks: The Heidgen Rule
  23. PSA: The Knockout Game
  24. When Nothing Adds Up
  25. The Future of Law: The Cavity Analogy
  26. Juries Matter, Until They Don’t
  27. New York Corrects The Padilla Flaw (But So What?)
  28. It’s Not Dead Yet (Update)
  29. Law and the Lady Next Door
  30. The White Man’s Burden: Drug Mule
  31. The Jana Winter Conundrum: Every Man’s Evidence (Update)
  32. How High Is Over The Top?
  33. Old Judges, Bad Judges
  34. Because Men Can’t Win
  35. Could Hammond In Good Conscience Do Any Less? (Update)
  36. Freedom Is A Two-Way Street (or why Libertarians need lawyers too)
  37. Jeffrey Luhrsen Follows Marketeer David Faltz Down The Rabbit Hole
  38. Stop & Frisk: Did The Circus Leave Town?
  39. Gender Blindness
  40. Freedom Is Not Free
  41. A Hole Too Deep
  42. Angelene Richardson, Less Than Boston Strong
  43. Is “Actually Punished” Enough?
  44. In A Split Second
  45. Freedom To Think
  46. Law: It Just Happens Like Magic
  47. A Terrible Idea, But Still A Right
  48. A Simple Desultory Philippic (or how I was innovated into submission)
  49. How To Bend Over and Please A Cop (Update)
  50. Stop and Go
  51. Something Needs Clenching (Update — Warrant Application +2)
  52. Judge Scheindlin Fights Back (Update)
  53. Judge Richard Kopf Replies: An Unmistakable Message
  54. But For Video: Killer Oatmeal
  55. Because You’re Not Madison (and I’m not Jefferson)
  56. The Elephant in the Second Circuit
  57. Almost Book Review: Keith Lee’s The Marble and The Sculptor
  58. Blawg Review #325.2
  59. Phoning It In
  60. “Hustle is the most important word *ever*”
  61. Interim Chief Ruben Santiago Appreciates Your Transparency
  62. Reason No. 24 For Non-Lawyer Ownership: Access to Justice
  63. Asked and Answered
  64. 2d Circuit: Constitution Stayed (Update: Judge Scheindlin’s Press Release)

October 2013

  1. Lawdingo Thins The Herd
  2. You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone
  3. To Tell The Truth, 1st Amendment Edition
  4. Good-bye, Ed.
  5. Too Much Transparency
  6. Did The DEA Think Patty Would Go Away?
  7. Point and Shoot
  8. Sympathy For The Devil
  9. So What?
  10. Shrinking Prisons And A Debt Unpaid
  11. Locked and Loaded at Newman Elementary
  12. It Ain’t The Meat, It’s The Motion
  13. Too Great Expectations
  14. Schools Have Rules: Preparing For The Worst Edition (Update)
  15. Apology Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
  16. Fantasy Crime League
  17. Resigned To Defeat
  18. Why, St. John’s Law School? Why?
  19. It Takes One To Know One
  20. Truth And Injudicious Statements
  21. Is “Not Nuts” Enough?
  22. CryptoSeal VPN Goes Dark: More Dots To Connect
  23. Liptak To Law Reviews: Snort My Taint*
  24. Revenge Porn in Puyallup
  25. Negative Reinforcing Cycles
  26. Being In The Wrong Place 1°
  27. Three Times Longer For Ladies?
  28. When Car Chases Meet Bullets
  29. The Crack Whore and the Flower Girl
  30. Tough Guys and Buttercups
  31. The “Three Bullet Rule”
  32. Can The Kaleys Be Beggared Into Submission?
  33. When You’re A Hacker, Everything Looks Like Code
  34. For Whom the Light Shines
  35. Just Between Us Whores
  36. Professor Bennett Explains
  37. Schools Have Rules: Drunk and Stupid Edition
  38. Taking The Profit Out of Crazy
  39. It Smells Like . . . Victory
  40. Stuff About Google I Don’t Understand
  41. How Long Before the Safe Harbor, Article 230, Falls? (Update)
  42. Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun, with 21 U.S.C. § 851
  43. Why Law Schools Suck At Experiential Learning
  44. See You In The Funny Papers
  45. The Lavabit Brief: Breadth-Taking
  46. Only The “Foolish” Call Drug Crimes “Nonviolent”
  47. Law.com’s Top 500 Writers
  48. Praise Martin-Oguike, Rape Victim
  49. The Mugshot Conundrum
  50. New York to Revenge Porn: Any Selfies of Lawprof Mary Anne Franks? (Update x2)
  51. A Brilliantly Fiendish Response
  52. Another First Monday
  53. Job Description: Prosecutor
  54. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Internet
  55. What Law Will Be Named After Christian Adamek?
  56. Riot On Wheels Wasn’t Exactly Copless (Udate)
  57. Losing The Ethics Race
  58. Standard Condition of Supervised Release: Be Flaccid
  59. Facebook To Maryland Teachers: Whatever You Say (Update)
  60. Lavabit’s Levison’s Really Bad Call
  61. Silk Road: Random is the New Normal (Update)
  62. How The Government Explains The Internet
  63. What Lesson Will The Reaper Learn?
  64. The Whitewash of Burton Third (Video Update)
  65. Wanted: Robed Executioner

September 2013

  1. Police and the Camera
  2. The Strawman Defense
  3. What A Difference A Day Makes
  4. The Duty To Get Along
  5. Saving The Law Or The Lawyers, Or Saving Both
  6. Judge Jack Weinstein Makes His Point
  7. California Decides It Rules the Interwebz
  8. But It’s Just A Misdemeanor
  9. Scientific Method and Trick Questions
  10. The Other Can, Man
  11. Letters From the Edge
  12. Revenge of the Porn: Another Crime in the Making
  13. Killing The Law School “C”
  14. Let Lynne Die At Home
  15. Not Everyone Gets Away With It
  16. The “Racket” of Making Cops Look Bad ( Overlawyered Update)
  17. The Government’s Lame “Gotcha” Backfires
  18. OT: If You Want To Know, Ask
  19. The Best Worst Argument
  20. Busy People
  21. A New York Secret
  22. Talking Dirty To Old Women
  23. A Modesto Proposal
  24. Posner For Sale
  25. The Fantasy Prosecution League
  26. SWAT v. The Fearful Old Lady
  27. Blogging: More Than The Cost of Admission
  28. How Can Wrong Not Be Retroactive?
  29. Mistrust: The Real New Normal
  30. Curb Your Catharsis
  31. The Rhetoric of Bad Aim
  32. Happiness = Reality – Expectations
  33. Strike “Person” and Insert “Journalist”
  34. No Comfort For The New Victims
  35. The Wages of Incompetence
  36. But An Important Man Said So
  37. The Limits of Consent: Cellphone Edition
  38. Second Circuit Puts Brakes On The “Amy Machine”
  39. Fake, Phony, Profit!!!*
  40. Money, Speech, Lots of Money
  41. The Next Best Thing To Legal Aid
  42. Stewart Baker Plays Pick Up Sticks With Civil Rights
  43. Klosterman Chucks The Right To Remain Silent
  44. At 107, Time Stands Still
  45. Why Can’t Yale Law Students Count?
  46. When All Else Fails
  47. The Law of Rule, Arbitration Edition
  48. A System of “Complete Fools and Occasional Knaves”
  49. Black Monday For 18-B and the Criminal Defense Bar
  50. Because We Know How Much The Darts Hurt
  51. A Long Road To An Obvious Ruling (Naming and Shaming Update)
  52. Reason Number 37 Not To Skip School: The Unintentional Misfire
  53. The Uninvited
  54. The Game of the System
  55. Inviting Scrutiny: Rachel Rodgers’ Revenues
  56. Michael LaPaglia and the Fickle Finger of Fate
  57. A Bullet-Proof Argument
  58. The “Welcome To School” Lesson
  59. Forget the NSA. Meet AT&T’s Secret Hemisphere Project
  60. Book Review: The NYPD Tapes by Graham Rayman
  61. I Believe I Can Fly
  62. Noblesse Twoblige

August 2013

  1. Why Hackers Don’t Win Too Often
  2. Blue Light Special
  3. Be Thankful To Live In St. John Parish
  4. The Cole Memo 2.0: This Changes Everything
  5. 6th Circuit to Dr. Michael LaPaglia: No More Rectal Love For You
  6. The Future of the Future of Law (Update)
  7. A Right Buried in Reams of Paper
  8. The Sausage Maker’s Claim
  9. Second Circuit Protects Prearrest Invocation of Rights
  10. What About Pro Bono?
  11. The Elusive Concept of Stop & Frisk
  12. A Clash Avoided (Update)
  13. What If No One Answered The Phone?
  14. ObamaLaw
  15. Connie and the Bloggers
  16. (OT) LIPA: We’ll Get To It. Eventually (Update)
  17. Blecker: Make It Hurt, Baby
  18. Suicide By Cop: When Stupid Prevails
  19. A Rare Point of Agreement: Judicial Selection Must Improve
  20. The Agony of Defeat
  21. The Third Cut Is Pretty Deep too (Update)
  22. Blaming The Dead
  23. The Death of Groklaw
  24. Consensual Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
  25. Why Stop & Frisk Is Way Too Hard For Cops
  26. The Argument For Stupid on Crime
  27. Miranda Warning
  28. If The Suit Fits
  29. Retired Lt. Harry Thomas Remembers (Update)
  30. Virtually Normal
  31. If You Can’t Trust The Government
  32. The First Rule of Policing Meets Fight Club
  33. The ABA: We Will Deign To Listen
  34. Calculated Ignorance Is Not An Acceptable Excuse
  35. Stare Decisis
  36. Reality Check: Barely A Ripple, But A Ripple
  37. Can Stop & Frisk Be Stopped?
  38. Will Holder’s Half-a-Loaf Fix It? (Update)
  39. The Real Technicality
  40. The Public’s Right To Know
  41. But For Video: Who’s Mentally Ill?
  42. Challenging the Ghost of “Parallel Construction”
  43. Lawprofs React to ABA Working Paper: But We ARE Special
  44. A Dying Art
  45. But It Made Sense On Paper
  46. At MIT, Neutrality isn’t Neutral
  47. Deliberate Fairly Before You Convict
  48. It Was Supposed To Be A Large Pepperoni
  49. Bet Kerrie O’Connor Didn’t See This Coming
  50. The Problem With Crazy John Ferguson
  51. Dedication Sometimes Means Walking Away
  52. Good Crime, Bad Crime
  53. The ABA Working Paper on the Future of Legal Education
  54. Because We Train ’em That Way
  55. The Gentler Sex
  56. Nobody Wants To Pay For Dr. Lishan Wang
  57. The $4.1M Accident That Can Never Happen
  58. Inside Counsel Is Good Enough For FISA (and us)
  59. Where Criminal Meets Civil Law
  60. Your Money or Somebody’s Life

July 2013

  1. The Fake Cop Conundrum
  2. A Child Struck or Twitter Gone Wild? (Update)
  3. For A Housewife, Things Just Got Very “Real”
  4. Plant It and It Will Grow
  5. Beating The Rap
  6. Always Too Late: TSA Edition
  7. Lawyer Marketeer Stephen Fairley: Rainmaker or Racketeer?
  8. The Unintended Consequences of Binary Thinking
  9. Sam’s Club
  10. Movie Review: Scenes of a Crime
  11. Cool Story, Bro, If Only It Was Accurate
  12. WaPo: “The Question” Without The Answer
  13. Because Negligence Happens
  14. So You Want To Matter, Scholarship Edition
  15. The Money-Back Guarantee
  16. For The Love Of Process: A Hearing Before Getting Screwed
  17. Ten Reasons To Search
  18. The Secondary Effect of Sequestration
  19. Would A Second Voice Right FISC’s Wrong?
  20. The Virtues of Blog Comments
  21. Suicide By Cop
  22. Exhibit A, The Blog
  23. Charitable Me
  24. But For Video: Mission Accomplished
  25. Nerve Touching
  26. Women Are From Venus, Cops Are From Mars
  27. Lest One Guilty Man Go Free
  28. Don’t Blame Me, I’m Just The President
  29. In Tempe, It’s Coercion
  30. When All Your Marketeer Has Is A Hammer
  31. They Blinded Us With Science
  32. A JD By Watching TV
  33. To Talk Inside Baseball, You Have To Be Inside Baseball
  34. But For Video: The Passive/Aggressive Freep
  35. Moving Day (Update)
  36. The Butcher, The Baker and FISA
  37. Straight From The Hole
  38. What Would Atticus Have Done?
  39. Command Prompt
  40. Sound The Retreat (Update)
  41. Entropy: It’s Not What It Used To Be*
  42. Zimmerman: No Appeal From The Court of Public Opinion (Update)
  43. Fighting Video with Video
  44. Officer Safety and Second Hand Smoke
  45. Protip: Don’t Screw With Old Folks
  46. All Zimmerman or All Trayvon Martin
  47. The Day Tripper Dilemma
  48. I Spoke Too Soon
  49. End of Lifed
  50. How Bad Ideas Grow Legs
  51. It’s Not Easy Being Weev (Update)
  52. Welcome Back, Spitzer
  53. Dubious in the First Degree
  54. Magic Words, Magic Rights
  55. Harm? Not Here (Update)
  56. Schools Have Rules: Alas, Poor Garcias* Edition
  57. Fair Question from the Slackoisie
  58. Checkpoint Mayfield
  59. Government to Judge: It Sucks To Be The Defense
  60. Third, Fourth, Whatever
  61. Born on the Fourth of July
  62. But For Video: Former Cop Rory Bruce Acquitted Edition
  63. It’s Always The Other Cop
  64. Submission to What Shield?
  65. The LIRR 600 Rode into the Valley of Death on the 8:09 (Update x 2)
  66. The Way We Were
  67. Gideon’s Army, The Review
  68. A Cop Left The Bar Loaded
  69. Complete Good Faith

June 2013

  1. Money 101
  2. Readers Mailbag, Volume 27
  3. But For Video: This Won’t Hurt (Me) A Bit
  4. Your Call Is Very…
  5. Idiot Wind*
  6. But For Video: Community Service Edition
  7. Making Small Criminals Big (Video Update)
  8. Do Unto Others, If You’re a Cop
  9. The Fight for Discovery
  10. Online Dispute: Resolution or Creation?
  11. Crack is Whack
  12. Getting Snowdened (Update)
  13. Putting Salve on the Sentencing Symptom
  14. The Ethics of Overcharging
  15. A Dose of Marcus
  16. Because There’s No Such Thing As Undemo
  17. Making Fudge (Gamso Update)
  18. PSA: Still Time To Sign Up For Advance iPad From The ABA
  19. A Hard Earned Raise For Atlanta Cops
  20. Brief Lifespans
  21. An Awful Long Time
  22. Really Important Changes in Laws
  23. NY District Attorney Cy Vance: What About Me?
  24. Quantifying Success: BFD
  25. Griffin-22, Because It Can Get Worse
  26. Washington & Lee Law School’s Excellent Idea (With Googlicious Update)
  27. Dot Connecting The NSA’s Stories and Reality in Court
  28. Show and Tell
  29. Book Review: Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop
  30. The Silence is Deafening
  31. Odd Wife Out
  32. They Don’t Call It The Department of Justice For Nothing
  33. An Offer with No Takers
  34. Saving Christopher McCann
  35. Practical Experience
  36. They All Look The Same To A Cop
  37. A Database of Their Own
  38. A Meta-Humbling Reminder
  39. A Disingenuous Honor
  40. With All Due Respect, Free Chad Ochocinco
  41. The Unreasonable Expectation of Privacy
  42. Rocky Mountain (Not So) High
  43. Is Biglaw Learning The Magic Secret?
  44. The Chad Holley Lexicon
  45. No Second Take For Aiyana
  46. And He Teaches Too?
  47. It’s Not Wrong To Be Young Ladies
  48. Seize It All, And Trust the Government To Sort It Out
  49. Touching Officer Teacup
  50. Blind Justice: As Seen On TV
  51. Can’t Buy Me Love, No (Update)
  52. Prosecutor Trolls, Because Judges Let Them
  53. The Slippery Swab (Update)
  54. Because She’s Not Wearing Knickers
  55. Not Quite Free Enough To Go
  56. Plea Bargaining with a side of Judge
  57. District Attorneys Learn to Lose
  58. Capped Guns, Cap Guns, Guns
  59. But For Video: Gun, Gun, Gun
  60. A Feel Copped
  61. Avvo: Anything for $10. Anything
  62. A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The “Justice Gap”

May 2013

  1. Beware The Stare (Update)
  2. Is Begging For Mercy The Only Way?
  3. “N” Innocent Men, College Edition
  4. A Shiny New Exception: Innocence
  5. License Plate Politics
  6. A Woman’s Touch
  7. Law Ratchet: New Dogs, Old Tricks (Update x3)
  8. Memorial Day, 2013
  9. On Second Guess, Still Wrong
  10. Still The Same Three Letters After Your Name
  11. When Everybody Bullies
  12. New Blood (Dark Side Update)
  13. Drug Warrior Has Special Needs
  14. The Feds Burn 830 To Get Ajemian
  15. Waving Good-Bye To The Fifth
  16. Teach What To Whom?
  17. The Best Wrong Answers
  18. Sgt. Dennis Workley and a Jail Safe Enough
  19. You’re The Ginchiest (and other lame linkbait)
  20. A Lot of Misjudgment of Suspicion
  21. “Taser Joe” Martinez Meets The Line
  22. Will Money End Recidivism?
  23. The Death of Andrea Rebello: Excuses 2.0
  24. My “Styles” Audition for the New York Times
  25. Every Day is a Networking Event
  26. How Do You Say “Reasonable Accommodation”?
  27. The .05% Solution
  28. The First Reaction: It Wasn’t Our Fault (Sad Update)
  29. Top 10 Ways To Waste An Hour Of Your Life
  30. But For Video: Domestic Dispute Edition
  31. The Kitchen Sink Theory of Reform
  32. Odds Are 16 2/3% For A Perfect 10
  33. Nothing To Salvage in Kern County (Update x2)
  34. College Speech Codes and the Neo-Puritans
  35. Corner Clearing, Rochester Style
  36. The FBI Hates The “On” Button
  37. Have A Nice Day?
  38. Fixing Leaks, AP Style
  39. Brady at 50: The Cake is a Lie*
  40. The Fallacy of Simplicity
  41. The Passion of Prosecutors
  42. ATL’s Top 50 Law Schools (and other things that matter)
  43. Rakofsky v. Internet: Case Dismissed
  44. No Castles in Harris County
  45. Olegs Kozancenko, Beaten For What?
  46. It’s Only Virtual For You
  47. Hating the Reviled? Anything For A Buck
  48. Schools Have Rules: Tuck Your Shirt In, Or Else Edition
  49. Cutting Costs, LA Style
  50. Jeremy Drew, Awesome
  51. Judge Belvin Perry: I’m Still Ready For My Close-Up
  52. No Escape
  53. Son of Zero Tolerance
  54. But For Video: The Trooper Asked Nicely Edition
  55. Former Chief Judge Makes A Rookie Mistake
  56. Book Review: Mistrial
  57. Cuba No Libre
  58. Smart. Too Smart
  59. Unsafe At Half The Price
  60. The Legal Wisdom of Michelle Boatley
  61. Why Pick on Liz Lederer?
  62. Victims v. Rats
  63. The Right (not) To Be Present
  64. Posner on Privacy: Who Cares?
  65. Not Bias, But Donuts

April 2013

  1. But Kids Are Cuter than Sexual Assaulters
  2. When You’ve Only Got 100 Years To Live
  3. Tamon Robinson “Did Run Into”
  4. Forget The Warden; Complain on Yelp
  5. The Easiest Practice of Law
  6. Bottoms Up?
  7. Talk Too Much
  8. Sam’s Club at #Lawyernomics (Awesome Video Update!!!)
  9. This Is Why You Can’t Afford Preppy Shirts (Update)
  10. Zero Minus 16
  11. Children Hostage in the War on Pot
  12. Fun With Numbers
  13. Prison Nation: Assume Nothing
  14. Barred or Barred?
  15. Elvis Has Left The Courthouse
  16. A Fact Found About Brady and Ken Anderson
  17. Boldfacing Around Tsarnaev (Update)
  18. Strength in Numbers
  19. Screw The Jury (and pass the Taser)
  20. Bad News for IANAL
  21. My Closing Keynote Address at Lawyernomics 2013
  22. Bringing Out The Worst In Us
  23. Changing Warnings In Mid-Stream
  24. Not So Excited Delirium
  25. The Convenience of Poking Drunks
  26. When Teachers Eat Their Own
  27. Today’s Lesson: Kafka, Feminism and Due Process In University Discipline
  28. Wanna Be Saul? (Update: Punk’d)
  29. Only 69¢ To Ruin A Kid’s Life
  30. Yes, You Are Entitled
  31. Taser: Tool of Compliance or Weapon of Force?
  32. No Presumed Flush in Texas Hold ’em
  33. Reinvent BigLaw Into, well, Us
  34. Should Silence Convict
  35. Gitmo 2.1
  36. The Inspector General Is On The Job
  37. Selling Your Briefs
  38. Tax Day Approaching, and so is the IRS
  39. Law 2.0 (A Marketeer’s Perspective)
  40. But For Video™: Cop in Shorts (Update)
  41. Criminalizing Revenge Porn (Texas Update)
  42. The Constitution in the Hands of a Grocery Clerk
  43. Even Reverse Stings Hurt
  44. Reason 37 To Reform The CFAA
  45. The Praise Sandwich
  46. Twitter For Shame
  47. Far Too Frisky
  48. When There’s No One Around
  49. Critique of a Critique of a Critique of Tech Utopia
  50. A Gun By Any Other Name
  51. Don’t Worry, Be Effective
  52. Disrupting the Disruptors #ABATechShow
  53. A Judge’s Opinion Is Protected By The First Amendment
  54. Inviting Skepticism, With A Proviso
  55. The Gideon Trick
  56. Hands on the Wheel
  57. Dirty Words: Risk Averse
  58. The Dangers of Defending Your Internet Persona
  59. Revenge
  60. He Sued. He Won. Who Knew?
  61. Said The People Who Were Never Stopped or Frisked

March 2013

  1. Saved: 1; Lost: Everyone Else
  2. The Dorner Reward: Let’s Get Technical
  3. Making Mean Disappear
  4. Obstruction of Something
  5. Judge Carton Has Left The Bench
  6. The Bad Sort of Stringray
  7. Avvo Answers: Shut Up and Put Down the Weapon
  8. Lying Liars, Bill Otis Style
  9. Future Crime, Redux
  10. By Invitation Only
  11. The “Who’s The Liar” Game (And Who Cares?)
  12. No Time To Churn
  13. A Lawyer’s Choice: Brian Banks
  14. Firing John Adams
  15. The End of Inertia
  16. Work/Life Balance: The Zombie Walks
  17. Kerr: Rethinking Smartphones
  18. The “Right People” of New York
  19. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl Gets It Right
  20. Too Much Evidence Against Oakland Cops
  21. What Tastes Good To You?
  22. Justice Kagan: Drive American
  23. But For Video: Acceptable Aberrational Abuse
  24. A Former Star Prosecutor’s Advice (Update)
  25. The Silence of Gideon
  26. Privacy: Sold For A Shiny Gadget
  27. Two Professions, Both Calling Themselves Lawyers
  28. To Tell The Truth
  29. The New Normal at St. Louis University Law
  30. Saldate’s Word
  31. Really Simple Sign of the Future
  32. Judge Jed Rakoff: Scrap the Guidelines
  33. A Really Hard Fall (Update: The Police Definition of a Fall)
  34. Schiffman, Meet Streisand (Update!!! x4)
  35. Emotional Rescue of the Slackoisie
  36. Food For Thought
  37. The Unknown Scholar
  38. The Bad Cop Paradox
  39. Jurors Have Questions
  40. 9th Circuit Limits Computer Border Searches (Update)
  41. Let It Bleed
  42. #ReinventLaw (Or What I Did On The Eve of Destruction)
  43. “Where’s That Warrant Now?”
  44. It’s Not Transparency When It’s A Lie
  45. Blawger Rick Horowitz Will Not Be Silenced (Update)
  46. The Best System Ever
  47. But The Defendant Didn’t Testify
  48. Eric Holder, Public Enemy (Updated)
  49. In The Money
  50. If There’s No Penalty, It’s Not Wrong
  51. A Cop Lets One Slide
  52. The Lowest Comment Denominator
  53. Rolling the Crazy Dice (Update)
  54. Can Live Survive?
  55. Not Trial By Video
  56. But What About Clients?
  57. A Bad Day in Prairie Grove
  58. Inside the Law School Scam Comes to a Close

February 2013

  1. Domain for Sale
  2. When Cops Do Wrong, Blame The Lawyer
  3. There’s No Standing in a Coffin
  4. Civic Virtue: Teach Your Children Well
  5. What Sam Ponder Said
  6. Because It’s Only “Unreasonable” Searches and Seizures
  7. Blood Crime (Update)
  8. A Bust Too Far
  9. Only As Brilliant As You
  10. The Discreet Charm of the Slackoisie, Academic Edition
  11. Are Suspects Just Too Tough?
  12. Who You Gonna Believe?
  13. Close, But No Privacy
  14. Ridiculous, Squared
  15. Bored or Crazy, They’re Us
  16. Hot Mess in Montgomery County
  17. In Dog We Trust
  18. The Police Had to Know
  19. The Luxury of Defeat
  20. The Virtues of the English
  21. But The Cop Didn’t Show
  22. Rutgers Law Dean Farmer Plays The Apprentice
  23. Queen’s Counsel’s Questions
  24. Beefing Up A Law That Choked
  25. Gresham P.O. Taylor Letsis: When Will He Learn?
  26. Washington State Leads The Way To Affordable Legal Services
  27. CampusLawyer: Taking Advantage of Kids on Campus?
  28. The Drunken Prosecutor Defense
  29. Because One Secret Court Isn’t Enough
  30. The Integrity Bot?
  31. SJ is 6 today
  32. Naked Lawprof Mudwrestling: Doctrine, Practice and Skills
  33. At Least P.O. Diego Palacios Didn’t Get A Medal
  34. Sue Me, Sue You: How To Decide Who’s Worthy
  35. Overarmed, The Religion
  36. LA Cops Make Killer Look Good (Bumper Sticker Update)
  37. The Brave and Foolish Loyola Dean Yellen
  38. Kill Lists: The Neo-Warrior’s View
  39. Addressing The Problem: Keep Your Email Address Up To Date
  40. Just Professional, Hardworking Guys
  41. Today’s Journalism Lesson? Fade to Black
  42. The High Price of a Free Meal
  43. Law, Integrity and Prestige Whoring
  44. The Law From The Bottom
  45. It Couldn’t End Well (Update)
  46. Real Sentencing: Not Nearly As Interesting
  47. Assume the Worst
  48. CJ Lippman Proposes NY Bail Overhaul
  49. That Run Down Feeling in Wichita
  50. The President’s Defense
  51. Frank Zappa as Legal Philosopher, LegalTech Edition
  52. USSC Reveals Shocker: We’re Still Failing
  53. Too Late
  54. Cops Still Lie
  55. The Real Cops of Oakland
  56. Risk and Reward (Or How I Learned To Love Hate)
  57. If You Happen To Come Across Tony
  58. Troopers on the Collection Beat
  59. Wait For It . . .

January 2013

  1. The Good People of Culpeper
  2. Judge John Gleeson: Not Done Yet
  3. Cop Gets A Medal For Living; Too Bad About the Locksmith
  4. Lazy Squared
  5. But For Video: The Bridgeport Epiphany
  6. Tongue Holding, Blawgosphere Style
  7. Anonymous Hacks The USSC Website (Did You Notice?)
  8. Not Too Unconstitutional
  9. Google Just Said No
  10. Breaking News: There’s Something Called “The Internet”
  11. The Hyperbole of Victimhood Doesn’t Help
  12. Dr. Who?
  13. They Shoot Video, Don’t They?
  14. Digital Natives: As Bad At Tech As They Are At Law
  15. When the Ped is a Brother
  16. Response to @RadleyBalko: Why Loser Pays in Criminal Law is a Loser
  17. Fixing the System: The Usual Suspects
  18. The Future of Legal Advice (or how to assure conviction) (Insta-Update)
  19. When The Prosecutor Stumbled Onto Graft
  20. Carlos Miller and Disruptive Technology
  21. Why Is Sexually Abusing a Puppy Funny?
  22. But For Video: The Chair in the Boulder County Jail
  23. The Law Professors’ New Clothes
  24. Windy City Cops Claim Another
  25. Cheating, Lying and Learning
  26. From Focus to Warm and Fuzzy (Update)
  27. Bringing Reality to Bear on the Aaron Swartz Tragedy
  28. Not Client-Safe
  29. Guilty in Acquittal
  30. Counsel of Choice
  31. A Slow News Day
  32. Benchslap 2: Judge Kane’s Fix for Law Schools
  33. Because The Victim Deserves
  34. Aaron Swartz Post-Mortem: So Now You Know (Update x2)
  35. Satisfaction? Selling Off Appellate Rights
  36. The Business of Law Will Get Its Day in Court
  37. Benchslap: Judge Kane on Law Schools
  38. Straws, Tubes and Needles, A Pyrrhic Compromise
  39. Convicted in the Court of Public Opinion
  40. Forever Wrong (Update — and Wronger x2)
  41. NYPD’s “Clean Halls” Program Enjoined
  42. Fixing Law Schools: No Lawyers Needed
  43. Sending Messages: Conjecture and Empty Rhetoric Isn’t Proof
  44. And If You Think A Needle In Your Arm Is Bad
  45. Between the Cracks, What To Do With Jerks?
  46. Tricks of the Trade, Part 1
  47. Bench Brief Burdens
  48. Dean Lawrence Mitchell Explains, And He’s Right (and very wrong)
  49. Gary Ostrow’s Important Announcement
  50. When “I Forgot” Doesn’t Cut It
  51. Bird Is The Word
  52. Bucking the Trend: The “No-Praise Zone”
  53. License to Kill
  54. Keyword: Seizure
  55. No Proof, But No One To Blame
  56. And the Winner of the 2012 Jdog Prize is…
  57. Bernie Burk: Toxic Tone v. Vacuous Style (Update)

2012 606

December 2012

  1. Sticky: Nominations are Open for the 4th Annual Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post — Last Day For Nominations!
  2. The Constitution, Just A Suggestion
  3. Looking Backward, Seeing Nothing
  4. The Manufactured Criminal
  5. A Desperate Game of Catch-Up
  6. Silence the Alarm
  7. Breaking Rank
  8. The Buzz From Above
  9. For A Brief, Shining Moment, Warrants Might Have Been Required (Update)
  10. The Great Debate: No Cow-Tipping Allowed
  11. Hard Work, The Lawprofs’ New Normal
  12. Just Normal Apprehension
  13. A Present For Immigrants
  14. No Joy in Webster
  15. A Full Bag of Holiday Cheer
  16. Small Print and Fine Print
  17. Horseshoe Crimes: Close Enough
  18. 10,000 Divided by X Equals 4 Hour Credibility
  19. The Hoody Syndrome
  20. As Long As Your Car Is Stopped Anyway
  21. “Criminals Don’t Like Being Talked To”
  22. Freedom of Information, Courtesy of the Chandler Brothers
  23. Cop vs. Cop
  24. The Real Problem Is…
  25. Snitching, For Fun and Profit
  26. Take The Classroom Back
  27. Newtown Horror
  28. Contaminated Testimony
  29. Surface Scratching
  30. Shooting Superman
  31. iLawyer
  32. Dickering Over The Price
  33. Cheap Rooms in Collinsville (Update)
  34. They Don’t Make the Cut
  35. Blawging Blowback: Sarcasm Edition
  36. Defending Against Ghosts
  37. Maybe Outsourcing Isn’t The Answer?
  38. Convicting The Innocent, A Symposium
  39. Three Things I Learned From Marc Romano of Ignyte
  40. The Last Word
  41. Cross Examination on Sale
  42. Blame The Supremes For Benny Lee’s Death
  43. War of the Worlds
  44. The Start of Something Small
  45. Liberty, Equality? No, Fraternity
  46. Testing The Testers
  47. Sky Valley Chronicle; Where The 1st Amendment Meets Crazy
  48. The TL;dr View from the Inside
  49. Rating White Bread and Lawyers
  50. Borderline Searches
  51. How Old School Internet Cleans Up Its Act
  52. Be Scared: Westchester Creates Its Own Registry
  53. The Last Man Convicted
  54. To Sleep, Perchance To Dream
  55. Kozinksi: The Drugs and Guns Presumption Lives
  56. First Best Lie

November 2012

  1. Law Porn in the New York Times
  2. Mugshot Recognition? There’s An App For That
  3. Mayberry Investigates Sheriff Andy
  4. Not Nice. Not Nice At All (2 Cent Update)
  5. Congress Shall Make No Law
  6. Slate’s New Crime Blog: Making the World Stupider, One Post At A Time
  7. No Code For Thinking (Update)
  8. The Cool Guy on the Airport Security Line (Update)
  9. Third Strike, Nuts
  10. Technology In Need Of A Constitutional Moment (Pants Update)
  11. You Coulda Been President
  12. Sunday TSA Movie Matinee
  13. Praise the Lord and Judge Norman
  14. They Started To Fight When The Money Got Tight
  15. A Crack in the Wall of Eyewitness ID Jury Instructions
  16. A Social Media Professional
  17. A Lengthy Yet Random Homage to Family Values
  18. In Fairness To The TSA
  19. The Will of the People
  20. Where Nobody Knows Your Name
  21. Something We Can All Agree On: Rules
  22. A Second Judge Smacks Brooklyn Prosecutor
  23. PSA: How Not To Find A Lawyer (Update)
  24. My First Time Not There (Results Update)
  25. Ethics: You Can’t Waive Your Own Ineffectiveness
  26. Police Perjury: Is The Tide Turning?
  27. [Intentionally Left Blank]
  28. The Upper West Side Isn’t Flat
  29. Guidance; Courtesy of the Government
  30. Care Enough To Watch The Video
  31. When Biglaw Came Calling
  32. Chicago “Code of Silence” Verdict: Guilty!!! (Update: Police Reaction, Update 2: Money Talks, Update 3: The Judge Refuses To Play)
  33. Chicago’s New Policy Is Follow The Law
  34. Jury Sends Message to LA Cops: Stop Hurting People
  35. The Myth of Legal Populism
  36. “Real” Journalism (Update)
  37. The Price Point of Challenging Bad Law
  38. Fighting Tats
  39. The $99 Solution
  40. Blame the 12-Year-Old Student
  41. A Lawyer, Like David Blade
  42. NY Criminal Defense Lawyers, Now Taking In Laundry
  43. To The Dogs
  44. The Lawyer Who Came In From The Cold
  45. Red Cross and other Catastrophic Curiosities
  46. Damage Assessment – Week 1

October 2012

  1. When Nino Pushes Buttons
  2. Advocates versus Lawyers
  3. Quietly Awaiting #Frankenstorm
  4. The Myth of The Age of Specialization
  5. Seizing Authority: Write Well or Get Out
  6. Have You Even Heard of Your Legal Marketer?
  7. The Mission Creep of Rape Shield Law
  8. An Homage to Judicial Anger
  9. Good Liar, Bad Liar
  10. Even Defendants Deserve Accuracy
  11. Win, Lose or Draw: Marketing Your Batting Average
  12. Only 44 LIRR Retirees Took The Bait
  13. Now that Judge Lippman Has Taken Charge
  14. Castle Doctrine, Bronx Style
  15. Stop the Insanity; Don’t Make Everybody Blow
  16. Chicago Video Beating Puts Code of Silence On Trial
  17. OT: Sowing Disappointment in the Blawgosphere
  18. Something About Cops: A Psych Perspective
  19. Selling Social Media: Another Pyramid Scheme?
  20. Taser Invents Its Own Cause of Death
  21. The Joys of Visual Aids
  22. Forced to Snitch
  23. If You’re In Minnesota, Avert Your Eyes
  24. Nebraska Allows Sex Offenders to Breath
  25. A Plea That’s Not
  26. NYU Law School: Third Year, PROFIT!!!
  27. But For Video: No Felony Here Edition
  28. Will An Inspector General Help?
  29. Without Dates, You Intentionally Deceive (Update)
  30. Goldman’s Gupta and Letters From His Friends
  31. The Execution of John Errol Ferguson: Just “Normal Christian” Crazy (Update x6)
  32. “Accountability Matters” (Update)
  33. Milwaukee Police Officer Michael Vagnini: Inserting His Authority
  34. When Nice Lawyers Get In Trouble
  35. Lawyers.com’s Larry Bodine: Of Hecklers, Whiners and Disrupting Marketers
  36. Cyberwarfare and the Coming 9/11
  37. Too Much Information: What to do about Data Seizures
  38. Stop and Frisk, The Movie
  39. The Future Of Law and The Fool’s Utopia, Rape Edition
  40. Sandusky, The Prequel (Update)
  41. Simple and Wrong
  42. Remembering Stuff Is Hard Work
  43. Early Deportation and the American Way
  44. We Get What We Demand
  45. Buying Time
  46. The Internet and Free Speech Calculus
  47. When Babies Have Babies (and murder them)
  48. Oleoresin Capsicum: Not Just For Chem Class Anymore
  49. Why Have It If They Can’t Use It?
  50. Chaste and Chasten
  51. Sign Here
  52. Lt. Josey and the Palm Pacifier (Update)
  53. Protesters Losing For Winning
  54. Another October (Update)
  55. Judges Have “Life Experiences” Too
  56. myRight May Be halfRight?

September 2012

  1. It May Not Be A Crime, But You Don’t Have To Be A Bully
  2. Schools Have Rules: Another Autistic Kid Edition
  3. In Friendswood, Texas, With Limited Choices (Update)
  4. Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Little Star
  5. A Whisper on the Grand Concourse
  6. Is Everybody Watching? (Update)
  7. But Your Honor, Twitter Told Me So
  8. Atonement Never Hurts
  9. Outlaw, East Hampton
  10. Just A Three Year Vacation
  11. Curb Your Enthusiasm (Update)
  12. Who’s Your Lawyer?
  13. Book Review: Disrobed by Judge Frederic Block
  14. Puppies and Wheelchairs
  15. Courting Disaster
  16. The Rights of the Unappreciated
  17. The Value of a Good Alarm System
  18. Why We Need A Law Dictionary
  19. 11th Circuit Judge Carnes Convicted of Mass Murder of Words
  20. First Thing, Make All The Bar Applicants Do Pro Bono
  21. Not Even Nifong?
  22. But For Video: Executed for Jaywalking
  23. A Public Defender and the Lure of the Web
  24. Rationalizing Selling The DA’s Office
  25. The Sunday Evening Call
  26. Beating Up The LIRR Disabled
  27. Defense Witness Gone
  28. When The Immovable Object Meets The Irresistible Force
  29. Inciting The Crowds
  30. Free Love, Legal Fee Edition
  31. All The News That The Judge Approves (Update)
  32. The Terrorists Win Again
  33. Confidence and Cameras
  34. The New Leniency
  35. Avvo: Up to 5, Down from 10
  36. Apple’s Patently Bad Idea
  37. Lawyer Blackjack
  38. Twitter is Fleeting
  39. Revenge, Courtesy of the TSA
  40. Joel Rosenberg, The Unveiling
  41. Bad Thing Worse
  42. The Price of Positivity
  43. Sharing is Caring For Starbucks Lawyers
  44. Ignorance of the Law
  45. Checkpoint Follies
  46. The Perks of Judgehood
  47. A Penny Saved
  48. The Defense of Intentional Murder
  49. A Labor Day Story
  50. Millennials Have No Drive
  51. Chatting with the Other Side
  52. Masked Avengers and the Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
  53. Vulture Culture

August 2012

  1. The Sausage Maker’s Dilemma
  2. With Relevant Conduct, Anyone Can Be Jeffrey Dahmer
  3. But For Video: Cop Explanation Edition
  4. Gaming and Swearing
  5. Dinosaur Logic
  6. The Great Book Giveaway Contest (Woo Hoo!!!) (Winner Update)
  7. A Crash Is Still A Crash
  8. Unripe Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
  9. Two Witnesses, One Dead
  10. Sentencing Guidelines, Arbitrary Yet Relative
  11. Erie District Attorney: The Real Problem is Wrongful Acquittals
  12. Meanwhile, Back on the Farm
  13. The Problem with Guns in New York City
  14. Cut The Crap
  15. Blame It On DNA
  16. A Dog Named Cha-Ching
  17. Justice Raffaele, Inching Closer To Reality
  18. Nothing Left To Disrupt
  19. Walk This Way
  20. Solo Post-Mortem: Seizing Failure
  21. New York in Black and White
  22. The Truth, Now $60,000 Cheaper
  23. Power Corrupts
  24. OT: The Short Ride to Cambridge
  25. Public Service Announcement: Lose The Tin Foil Hat
  26. What Cost Winning?
  27. The Brady War Explodes (all over Queens DA “Get Down” Brown)
  28. DEA Crumbles Under The Weight of Evidence
  29. SORA, No Imposition There
  30. Continuing Legal Education: Fail
  31. The ABA Blawg 37
  32. Meet The New Rule, Same As The Old Rule
  33. Free Ademo
  34. What If There Is A Conspiracy?
  35. Law School Follies (And Josh Blackman’s Return)
  36. When Your Cellphone Becomes Their Evidence
  37. Two Views of One Story
  38. Tarantino and A Tampon
  39. Book Review: The Adventures of Ed Tuttle, Associate Justice
  40. “Arrested 17 Times”
  41. Dan Abrams: Crack Down on Student Speech
  42. The Happy Police
  43. The Electric Slide
  44. Why You Can’t Have Nice Things
  45. Burned Feet Hurt
  46. Olympic Losers (Update)
  47. But This Time, They Knew She Was Deaf
  48. Involuntary Servitude and Innocent Defendants
  49. Cops To New York Times Photog: You’re Not Special (Update)
  50. Chavis Carter: Filling in Blanks
  51. A Disruption in the Force
  52. The Kid Gets It
  53. Brady War Breaks Out In New York
  54. A Wise Investment?
  55. Texas Judges Doing Brain Surgery
  56. The War on Algebra

July 2012

  1. As Sure As Can Be
  2. Take One For The Team
  3. 5000
  4. Rational In Chicago
  5. A PD and a Private Lawyer Walk Into a Bar
  6. Dogs Will Be Dogs
  7. But Seriously, What Can I Do For You?
  8. Free Milk
  9. Dionne Press, Smacking A Helping Hand
  10. The Aurora Shooter: Tarasoff and Public Peril
  11. Adjunct Lawprofs with Unibrows
  12. Bloomberg to Troops: Seize Control (Memo Update)
  13. What If He Said “Aargh”?
  14. The Government Knows Your Cloud
  15. Penn State’s Collateral Damage
  16. A Vigilante on Twitter (Update x 2)
  17. The First Cut is the Deepest
  18. Media Abhors a Vacuum
  19. Retarded in Georgia
  20. Stay Classy
  21. Book Review: Mark Herrmann’s Inside Straight
  22. Advertising That The Fix Is In
  23. TWA Flight 800 Remembered
  24. Playing By L.A. Rules
  25. The Second Thing To Do
  26. How A Right Goes Very Wrong (Update)
  27. Pre-trial Release: We Own You
  28. Ineffective Assistance Squared + 5th Circuit = Death (Update x 3)
  29. The Olympics’ Missing Medals
  30. Judge Hub Harrington: Harpersville is Disgraceful
  31. Because It’s Facebook, duh
  32. Newsday’s Lane Filler: Father of the Slackoisie
  33. A Cop’s Life (Through An Arbitrator’s Eyes)
  34. Book Review: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Scalia and Garner
  35. Do “Radical” Sex Crime Laws Backfire?
  36. Reservations at Club Fed
  37. Things That Require an Expert
  38. Should Prosecutors Trust (And What About Us)?
  39. Incentive to Punish
  40. An Unappealing Waiver (Update x 2)
  41. What Bill Marler Did
  42. Guilding the Lily
  43. Because the Internet Can’t Be Happy
  44. Zombie Law Review Apocalypse (Update)
  45. Cato Amicus: Search Means Search
  46. Technology is the New Black
  47. Independence Day 2012, A Stroll
  48. An Honorable Title
  49. The Carreon Gambit
  50. Wifely Duties
  51. Part of the Problem
  52. Submission to the Shield: Digustingly Real
  53. Cute Doggies and Bad Law (Update)
  54. When Trials Are “Vanishingly Rare”

June 2012

  1. Say What? Redux
  2. Invest In The Future
  3. Even Panderers Hate Pandering
  4. Ten Years of Serious Appreciation
  5. The Six Month Smile
  6. When It’s Virtual, Nothing Else Matters
  7. Fist Assaulted by Face, and other Clichés
  8. Beware The Trial Junkie
  9. Naked Lawprof Mudwrestling: Althouse v. Turley
  10. Is 19 The Magic SCOTUS Number?
  11. Smile for the Camera
  12. What’s a Brooklyn Prosecutor to do?
  13. Save The Pentathlete
  14. The Amendola School For Lawyer Stardom
  15. Model Rule 5.5 Meets Your New Neighbor
  16. Facebook Status Update: Sex Offender
  17. The Judicial Twilight Zone: A Crime We Can’t Punish
  18. Paparazzi Primer
  19. Stay Cool
  20. Nor Twice Put In Jeopardy
  21. Murdering Brain Cells
  22. Trial is Not a Crime in America
  23. When Confrontation Meets Truthiness
  24. A Tip from the Angels
  25. You Won’t Read This
  26. Charles Carreon: No Cure for Cancer
  27. In Need of a Father
  28. Enshrining the Victim: Cassell Proposes a Constitutional Amendment
  29. Things You Didn’t Need to Know
  30. The Un-Criminal
  31. This is a Cop on Drugs
  32. When You Can’t Defend
  33. Why The Internet Will Not Save You
  34. A Recipe For Disaster
  35. The Legacy is Secure
  36. Judge Posner’s Plain Talk
  37. Seizing Evidence of Goodness (Update)
  38. When the New Normal Was New
  39. Happy Graduation, Timmy
  40. The Voice Inside Their Heads
  41. It Took 52 Brave Cops To Kill Him
  42. Clueless in Seattle
  43. Michael LaPaglia: An Anus Too Far
  44. Justice Thomas Raffaele Learns (Almost) The Hard Way
  45. That’s A Lot of ‘Cuffs
  46. Who Would Know? Who Would Care?
  47. Begging For Trouble
  48. Pseudonymity Denied (Update)
  49. Because The Judges Already Know (Update)
  50. Right Answer, Wrong Problem (Update)
  51. Trade Offs
  52. Tricks of the Trade
  53. Seizing Defeat From The Jaws of Victory (Update)
  54. The Meaning of Speedy
  55. The Unsophisticated Client

May 2012

  1. If You Say So
  2. Fighting Lawfare and Unintended Consequences
  3. ALM Claims its Streetcorner
  4. Time Will Tell
  5. Memorial Day 2012
  6. Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head
  7. For The Third Time, Don’t Do It Again!
  8. “Biggest Bunch of Crap Ever”
  9. True Confession
  10. Double Jeopardy and the Mulligan Exception
  11. Scholar, Judge, Expert for Sale
  12. Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day
  13. Schools Have Rules: Better Dead Than Broken
  14. Brian Tannebaum: The Prize
  15. A Letter From The FBI
  16. The End of Privileged Cluelessness (Update)
  17. If Colossal Insensitivity Is A Crime
  18. But For Video: Dick on Ditmas Edition
  19. Meet The New War
  20. The Time/Perspective Continuum
  21. Even With Pics, It Never Happened
  22. Slow Lawyer
  23. When Splinters Hurt
  24. A Weed Grows in Brooklyn (Update)
  25. Punditry Gone Awry
  26. Judge Katherine Forrest Enjoins Indefinite Detention
  27. Welcome to the Other Side
  28. Cash is the Crime
  29. Without Pics, It Never Happened
  30. An Epidemic of Furtive Movement
  31. Cincinnati Police Chief Says Tasers Can Kill
  32. Tactical Dismissal, or How To Make A Federal Judge Cry
  33. Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Lawyers
  34. Failing Law Schools: What If Tamanaha Is Right?
  35. Saving the Drug War: Prosecutorial Oblige
  36. When Deplorable Meets Harsh: The Michael Pena Sentence
  37. Us and Them in Pictures
  38. And Now, For A Commercial Break
  39. But For Video: Bronx Edition
  40. But Warren Boroson Said So
  41. Not Everyone Looks Good in A Hijab
  42. Sorry Doesn’t Cut It
  43. The Future of Law School: The Tamanaha Fix
  44. A Grave Breach of Trust
  45. Thomas Cooley Law Goes On The Offensive
  46. My Talk At Avvocating
  47. New York to Publius: You’re Done, Bully-Boy
  48. The Message of 500 Clients
  49. Good Times, Free Times
  50. An Insensitive Defense
  51. Lawprofs: Use or Be Used
  52. Pro Bono: Just Another Burden
  53. Thank You, Mr. Mueller
  54. The Sounds of Silence
  55. When The Judge Joins The Team
  56. But He Swore…
  57. Meet The Zimmerman Social Media Defense
  58. Convicted on Acquitted Conduct

April 2012

  1. Take No Chances
  2. Tag, You’re It
  3. So You Want To Be A Lawyer?
  4. As the Mob Turns
  5. Academia, Where Speech Goes To Die
  6. So Cops Lie, Eh?
  7. Your Life in Slackoisie Hands
  8. Lawyers: Hate, but Accurately
  9. Half an Argument
  10. The Intransigent Judge
  11. What’s Good For Wal-Mart
  12. Puppy Love (and Statistics Stink)
  13. The Riskiest Right
  14. Students “Consent”
  15. Simulate or Stimulate?
  16. Taxing the Frugal Future
  17. A Fab Career as a Forensics Expert!!!
  18. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  19. Heicklen Wins. Jury Nullification Charge Dismissed
  20. Cute, Sweet, Easily Digestible
  21. Blumenfeld to Brown: Stop Deceiving Defendants
  22. The Cop Definition of “Bizarre”
  23. Because They’re Animals
  24. A Word to the Wise (Update x 2)
  25. Kip Hawley Comes Clean
  26. So Starts the Ride
  27. We Know What You Said
  28. How Stunningly Zim-tastic of Us
  29. DA David Prater Gets It
  30. Can the 99% Be Wrong?
  31. No Evidence of Wrongdoing
  32. Through the Looking Glass
  33. Retelling The Story
  34. The More Things Change
  35. Interdisciplinary, or Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
  36. This is the Price of Security, Justice Kennedy
  37. Cry, Cry Baby
  38. Judge John Gleeson: You Have The Power
  39. When Tubes Cross Borders
  40. Cheese Whiz
  41. Unreasonable Expectations of Cops
  42. Hate Crime, Hate Crimes
  43. If You’re Happy and You Know It, Shut Up
  44. Doomed to Squat
  45. Lying Lawprofs or Arrogant Academics?
  46. The Scream
  47. Lieberman to Internet: You’re Fungus (Update)
  48. Watching Fungus Grow, Arizona Version

March 2012

  1. No Hard Feelings
  2. A Blogger Not Like Us (Update)
  3. The Unreasonable Lawyer Standard
  4. Burn Out, or Why You Should Shut Off the iPad
  5. After Life, Then What?
  6. The Testing Czar
  7. The Marginal Cost of Thrift
  8. Stand or Retreat: A Hard Choice
  9. Lawyer Fashionista: Haute Hoodie
  10. Packaged Like A Rebel
  11. “Disgraceful, Excessive, and Unprecedented”
  12. Be Careful What You Wish For, Bully Edition
  13. Tough Choices, Easy Answers
  14. Password Politics
  15. Please Plea(se) Me
  16. When the Thrill is Gone
  17. A Gun But No Shield
  18. The Schuelke Chronicles
  19. An App Too Far
  20. A Sunday Stroll
  21. No, You Can’t Tase Compliance
  22. Going Nowhere Fast
  23. An Orderly Blogosphere
  24. Fixing The Broken Machine (Update FTW)
  25. Forget Klingons; Meet P.O. Michael Reichert
  26. Desperately Dershowitz
  27. Marc Randazza, Hero
  28. Crash Course, or Just Crash?
  29. Scarier Numbers
  30. Fighting Over Crumbs
  31. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Our National Debt of Gratitude
  32. One Size Does Not Fit All
  33. Credit Where Due
  34. The Great Logo Contest
  35. Carsey Convicted, and Life Goes On
  36. Time For a Brady Break
  37. iPad vs. yPad (or why innovation isn’t always the answer)
  38. The President’s Authority, Extended
  39. Schools Have Rules: Attitude Adjustment
  40. The Quiet of the Morning
  41. Body Scanner Follies (Update)
  42. Making a Scene
  43. The Price of Winning
  44. LEAP and the Big Picture
  45. Mark Bennett, Court of Criminal Appeals

February 2012

  1. 5 Years
  2. Coming to a PD Near You!!!
  3. Fear of Flying
  4. Who’s The Boss?
  5. CyberBullying: “We know it when we see it”
  6. Tiny Crimes by the Thousands
  7. No Way Out
  8. Life Plus Cancer in Old Dominion
  9. Begging For Attention
  10. If You Let Me Play…
  11. The View of Parsimony From the Bench
  12. A Right Without Remedy
  13. Making Scalia’s Job Hard
  14. Squeezing Every Last Penny Out of Amy
  15. Andy McCarthy Blames the Lawyer Left
  16. Free Carlos Miller
  17. Clouds Illusions, Volume 3
  18. Rachel Rodgers’ Neighborhood
  19. Appellate Truth
  20. The Whiteboard Chronicles
  21. Harris County Sheriff: A Sensitive Sadist?
  22. Sometimes, Sorry Is All There Is
  23. NACDL Prez: Bring Back the Loyalty Oath

January 2012

  1. Schools Have Rules: Bad Hair Day Edition
  2. Resistance is Futile
  3. Asked and Answered? (Update: Fail)
  4. NYSBA to Gitmo Defense: We Don’t Care
  5. The Liars’ Economy
  6. Book Review: The Odd Clauses
  7. Making the Internet Better, One Law at a Time
  8. Mourning the Passing of Geeklawyer
  9. Reason Number 3 To Go To Cocktail Parties
  10. A Man Walks Into A Bank
  11. Debt Paid
  12. East Haven, Arizona
  13. A Computer Gets Keyed
  14. Cy Confirms: Can’t Count on Confessions
  15. Not So Crazy, And Still Crazy
  16. Making Sense of Jones
  17. Citizen of the Internet
  18. Twitter and the Mentor Delusion
  19. The Real See-Through
  20. Seattle Loses Control
  21. Losing For Winning
  22. A Cop Explains
  23. Own It
  24. Does This Really Make You Happy?
  25. Corey Maples Won’t Die. Yet.
  26. Quod Approbo Non Reprobo
  27. Another Bottom: Jeff Zarzynski, the Bully
  28. It’s Not Like Blogging is Journalism
  29. But For Video: Vicious Old Man Edition
  30. 601,055 Isolated Incidents a Year
  31. Best in Breed, Jamison Koehler
  32. Ch, Ch, Ch, Ch, Change (Turn and Face The Strain)
  33. Sense and Sensibility
  34. The DOJ is Alive
  35. Allocating Scarce Resources on Life or Death
  36. IDs Are Different
  37. An Innocent Tourist Gets “A Break”
  38. Lori Palmieri, The Stink of Pathetic (Update)
  39. Schools Have Rules: No Good Deed Edition
  40. From the Ministry of Excellent Excuses (Update)
  41. Cop Haters
  42. 7 Years Lost in Gitmo
  43. Race to the Bottom Continues: The Legal Arena
  44. Pulling The Trigger
  45. All The News That Fits
  46. Danger(ous), Will Robinson
  47. When Lawprofs Troll
  48. The Year of the Flawg
  49. Dearly Deported (Update)
  50. 40,000 New Reasons to Say “I’m Sorry”
  51. Justice Thomas’ Horseradish Vision
  52. A Blight on our Legacy
  53. Deportation, The Last Cesspool
  54. Godwin’s Law, Corollaries 92 & 93
  55. Schools Have Rules: Karma Edition
  56. Best Criminal Law Blawg Post, 2011

← 2011 2014 →